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Evaluating the environmental impacts of dietary recommendations
Edited by William C. Clark, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and approved October 31, 2017 (received for review July 3, 2017)

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- Published in issue December 19, 2017.
- Published first December 4, 2017.
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- Paul Behrensa,b,1,
- Jessica C. Kiefte-de Jongb,c,d,
- Thijs Boskera,b,
- João F. D. Rodriguesa,
- Arjan de Koninga, and
- Arnold Tukkera,e
- aInstitute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC, Leiden, The Netherlands;
- bLeiden University College The Hague, 2595 DG, The Hague, The Netherlands;
- cDepartment of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, 3015 CE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
- dDepartment of Pediatrics, Erasmus Medical Center, 3015 CE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
- eThe Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, 2595 DA Den Haag, The Netherlands
Edited by William C. Clark, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and approved October 31, 2017 (received for review July 3, 2017)
Footnotes
- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: p.a.behrens{at}luc.leidenuniv.nl.
Author contributions: P.B. designed research; P.B. performed research; P.B., T.B., and J.C.K.-d.J. analyzed data; and P.B., J.C.K.-d.J., T.B., J.F.D.R., A.d.K., and A.T. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
Data deposition: Software code is available online at https://github.com/PaulBehrens/EvaluatingEnvironmentalNRD.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1711889114/-/DCSupplemental.
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